Method of making heel-nail plates



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METHOD OF MAKING HEEL NAIL PLATES.

No. 325,271. Patented Sept. 1, 1885.

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FREEBORN F. RAYMOND, 2D, OF NEWTON, MASSACHUSETTS.

METHOD OF MAKING HEEL-NAIL PLATES.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 325,271, dated September 1,1885.

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To aZZ whom, it may concern.-

Be it known that I, Fnnnnomv F. RAY- MOND, 2d, of Newton, in the county of Mid dleseX and State of Massachusetts, a citizen of the United States, have invented a new and useful Improvement in the Method of Making Heel-Nail Plates and Heel-Nails, of which the following is a full, clear, and exact description, reference being had to the accompanying drawings, forming a part of this specification, in explaining its nature.

The invention relates to a method of making heel-nail plates described and claimed in my application for Letters Patent of the United States filed January 13, 1885, Serial No. 152,727, by which there is formed from a nailplate, which preferably is of uniform thickness throughout, one strip of heel-nails connected at their heads and aseries of complete separate nails into a comb-strip and separate nails.

Referring to the drawings, Figure 1 represents in vertical section aportion of the punch or press used in making the nail-plate, showing especially the reciprocating punch and its holder and the die. Fig. 2 is a section of the same parts upon the line 00 x of Fig. 1. This figure also shows the nail-plate in position upon the bed and die, a portion of the plate having been removed to form the strip, as hereinafter specified. Fig. 3 shows in perspective a portion of the bed of the press, the die, and the gage-plate against which the nail-plate is held while it is being punched. This view also shows a nail-plate in process of manufacture, the left-hand portion showing the shape of the plate before punching, and the right-hand part showing the complete comb-strip. Fig. 4 shows in perspective the shape of the portions punched from the plate which form separate nails. Fig. 5 is a perspective view of a nail severed from the nailstrip. Fig. 6 is a side elevation, and Fig. 7 an edge elevation, thereof.

a is the nail-plate. It is like that ordinarily employed in the manufacture of heelnails-that is, it is a plate which is as wide as the nail which it is desired to make is long and of uniform thickness throughout. This nail-plate is submitted to the action of a reciprocating punch, a, and die (1?, such as are i usually used in making the ordinary heelnail, with the exception that the punch is not vibrated, and that there is provided a gageplate, d, against which the edge of the nailplate is caused to contact as it is fed, whereby the portions a of the nail-plate are removed, leaving the blank I) connected by the uncut portion or section Z) of the nail-plate. This produces a comb-strip, so calledthat is, a series of partly-completed nails, N, which are entirely finished by being severed from the strip.

The partly-formed nails of the nail-strip, itwill be observed, taper on two sides, 0 c, from the point to the head-connecting portion of the strip, and they are separated at that point sufficient only to permit the completion of the nail by being severed from the strip by the action of a suitable die or cutter; but while they taper on two sides they are of uniform thickness from end to endthat is, the two surfaces 0 c are parallelso that when severed from the strip each nail has all the characteristics of the ordinary shoe-nail, inthat it has no head, although one end is wider than the other.

The sections a, which are punched from the nailplate, form heel-nails of a smaller size, which are adapted to be sold in bulk.

I have found that in making a comb-strip of heel nails, in order to save waste, it is desirable to form the strip in this way.

I am aware of the Patent No. 312,69], granted Voodward and Copeland, dated February 24, 1885, and also Patent No. 152, 735, granted WV. E. Fischer, dated July 7, 1874, and I consider that the same do not describe the essential features of my invention.

I am aware of Patent No. 312,691, granted to Messrs. Woodward and Copeland, for a tackstrip, in which sections of a plate are removed for the purpose of forming the shanks of the strip; but the sections which are removed do not form heel-nails, and are nothing but waste, whereas by my invention or process I make not only a comb-strip of heel-fastenings, but also separate heel-nails, and I therefore consider that the "Woodward and Copeland patent does not describe the essential features of my invention.

Having thus fully described my invention,

I claim and desire to secure by Letters Patent of the United States- The process of making heel nai1 strips and heeLnails from heel-nail plates, consisting in punching from heel-nail plates complete heelnails of a length less than the width of the strip, alternating with the shanks of the nails on the blank-strip, and thereby forming a heelnail strip or comb comprising the poitions or shanks b and the narrow uncut section or mar- 10 gin b, all substantially as and for the purposes described.

FREEBORN F. RAYMOND, 21). WVitnesses:

J. M. DOLAN, FRED. B. DOLAN. 

